Faculty | Internal Medicine Residency | Medstar Washington Hospital Center | MedStar Health

MedStar Washington Hospital Center's Department of Medicine employs more than 100 full-time physicians who also serve as faculty for the Internal Medicine Residency Program. These faculty members are skilled and experienced clinicians who have chosen to teach residents and fellows as a large part of their daily activities.

  • Cardiology

    Nana Afari-Armah, MD

    Brian Baturin, MD

    Itsik Ben-Dor, MD

    Patrick Bering, MD

    Nelson Bernardo, MD

    Zayd Eldadah, MD

    Margaret Fischer, MD

    Vaani Garg, MD

    Charles German, MD

    Richa Gupta, MD

    Cyrus Hadadi, MD

    Syed Haider, MD

    Hayder Hashim, MD

    Mark Hofmeyer, MD

    Sumbal Janjua, MD

    Ajay Kadakkal, MD

    Christy Kaiser, MD

    Preetham Kumar, MD

    Phillip Lam, MD

    Sung Lee, MD

    Diego Medvedofsky, MD

    Ricardo Nieves, MD

    Susan O'Donoghue, MD

    Miguel Pinilla Vera, MD

    Edward Platia, MD

    Maria Rodrigo, MD

    Toby Rogers, MD

    Lowell Satler, MD

    Manish Shah, MD

    Farooq Sheikh, MD

    Athanasios Thomaides, MD

    Apostolos Tsimploulis, MD

    Tania Vora, MD

    Anam Waheed, MD

    Ron Waksman, MD

    Allen Taylor, MD - Department Chair

    Gaby Weissman, MD - Fellowship Program Director

    Fellowship Training program: Yes

  • Endocrinology

    Neelam Baral, MBBS

    Kenneth Burman, MD - Fellowship Program Director

    Priya Kundra, MD

    Noor-ul-huda Mehdi, MD

    Meeta Sharma, MD , Section Director

    Susmeeta Sharma, MD

    Leila Shobab, MD

    Jason Wexler, MD

    Fellowship Training program: Yes

  • Gastroenterology

    Ghassan Alzayer, MD

    Nikiya Asamoah, MD

    Samer Charbel, MD 

    Alireza Meighani, MD

    Stanley Pietrak, MD

    I.David Shocket, MD , Section Director

    Fellowship Training program: Yes


  • General Medicine

    Godwin Darko, MD , Section Director

    Ronald Distajo, MD

    Ahmar Hashmi, MD

    Laurel Mueller, DO

    Arrel Olano, MD

    Nnenna Oluigbo, MD

    Sailaja Pindiprolu, MD, Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency

    Deborah Topol, MD, Associate Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency

    Jennifer Tran, MD


  • Geriatrics

    Austin Armstrong, MD

    Eric De Jonge, MD, Section Director

    Guy Vin Chang, MD



  • Hematology/Oncology

    Deepak Chander, MD

    Ami Chitalia, MD

    Salem Kim, MD

    Hira Latif, MD

    Cristina Merkhofer, MD

    Kamyar Nader, MD

    Suthee Rapisuwon, MD

    Hedy Smith, MD

    Andrew Tiu, MD

    Kristen Whitaker, MD

    Fellowship Training program: Yes

  • Hospice and Palliative Care Medicine

    Anca Dinescu, MD - Section Director and Fellowship Program Director

    Hunter Groninger, MD

    Clint Pettit, MD

    Lissa Berroa-Garcia, MD

    Hala Ashraf, DO

    Mikisa Solomon, MD 

    Fellowship Training program: Yes

  • Hospitalist Medicine

    Ehson Aligholizadeh, MD

    Ennis Alsaadi, MD

    Tamara Augustin, MD

    Victor Baez, MD

    Dweep Barbhaya, MD

    Manish Bastakoti, MD

    Eliana Bonifacino, MD

    Marilyne Cadieux, DO

    Christina Maguire Chai, MD

    Naveed Choudry, MD

    Meghan Connelly, MD

    Toluwashe Davies, MD

    Jhanvi Dave, MBBS

    Farah Da'as, MD

    Kyle Dillon, MD

    David Fink, MD

    Lea Fisher, MD

    Christopher Gibson, MD

    Mehdi Hemmati, MD

    Shameem Huq, MD

    Osarimabo Imoisili, MD

    Christopher Itua, MD

    Ana Kavtaradze, MD

    Rahel Kebede, MD

    Rajkiran Khattra, MD

    Maryam Khavandi, MD

    Mark Kotlarewsky, MD

    Shaunak Kulkarni, MD, Associate Program Director Clinician Educator Track

    Benjamin Kurth, MD

    Edwin Lini, MD

    Lingling Liu, MD

    Amanda Magee, DO, Section Director

    Lokesh Manjani, MD

    Roselyn Manus, MD

    Prasun Mishra, MD

    Saad Mohammad, MD

    George Mora, MD

    Soumya Narayan, MD

    Jenesha Narayanan, MD

    Iseri Obadaseraye, MD

    Erik Oran, MD

    Pradeep Paul, MD

    Joseph Pawlowski, MD

    Rafael Pristoop, MD

    Corica Rodgers, MD

    Azhar Shamas, MD

    Christine Shanahan, MD

    Scott Shepperd, MD

    Vaibhavi Silamgari, MD

    Shreenivas Sreenivasan, MD

    Junhui Song, MD

    Tanuj Sood, MD

    Tad Umali, MD

    Arathy Vamadevan, MD

    Daniel Wallach, MD

    Abubakari Welle, MD

    Yani Zhang, MD

  • Infectious Diseases

    Saumil Doshi, MD, Fellowship Program Director

    Hosein Kafimosavi, DO

    Adam Klein, DO

    Leon Lai, MD, Associate Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency

    Sheena Ramdeen, MD

    Christian Woods, MD, Associate Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency

    Glenn Wortmann, MD, Section Director

    Fellowship Training program: Yes


  • Nephrology

    Kevin Abbott, MD

    Michael Sherman, DO

    Lonnie Thach, MD

    Judith Veis, MD, Section Director

  • Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine

    Eric Ahlstrom, MD

    Chee Chan, MD

    Brian Cuneo, MD, Associate Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency

    Aaaron Holley, MD

    Anantha Mallia, MD, Associate Program Director POCUS, Associate Program Director Critical Care Fellowship

    Emil Oweis, MD, Associate Program Director Simulation Training

    Darling A. Ruiz Cerrato, MD, Associate Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency

    John Sherner, MD, Chair, Department of Medicine

    Andrew Shorr, MD, Section Director

    Jessica Wang Memoli, MD, Associate Program Director Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship 

    Christian Woods, MD, Program Director Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship and Associate Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency

    Fellowship Training program: Yes


  • Rheumatology

    Florina Constantinescu, MD, Section Director

    Jourdan Frankovich, MD

    Fellowship Training program: Yes


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